Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

Post by sammularczyk » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 9:58 AM UTC

Post by deanclatworthy » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 11:45 AM UTC

Post by dirktheman » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 11:57 AM UTC

deanclatworthy wrote: post #3

A friendly reminder to everyone. RAID is not backup: http://serverfault.com/questions/2888/why-is-raid-not-a-back... For your home, consider an offline service such automatically backing up to a NAS as well as an online service such as Crashplan or Backblaze.

Post by nodata » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 12:00 PM UTC

dirktheman wrote: post #5

deanclatworthy wrote: post #3

A friendly reminder to everyone. RAID is not backup: http://serverfault.com/questions/2888/why-is-raid-not-a-back... For your home, consider an offline service such automatically backing up to a NAS as well as an online service such as Crashplan or Backblaze.

Crashplan or backblaze are very user-friendly, but rather expensive, too. As a cheaper alternative, you can use Amazon Glacier. It costs mere pennies a month. ($0.18 in my case, where I would spend over $5.00 a month at crashplan/backblaze). However, AWS will charge you a lot more if you ever need to get your data back in a hurry. As a last resort solution (for instance my house burns down and my off-site external ha…

Post by nanch » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 12:09 PM UTC

eps wrote: post #8

Did you mean Today is a made-up day to drive traffic to our highly prized Sponsors and Offers page That also used to be one Reddit's feel-good community projects until guy in charge filed for copyright and grabbed it all to himself. ? Yes, it's an excellent and widely recongnized holiday.